Why hasnt ceasars ever had a poker room?

Ceasars has always been one of the prestige landmark casinos in vegas with much history. Yet despite their 3 large casinos on the property, i cant remember them ever having a poker room.

i know that a poker room does not generate as much profit for the casino by squarefoot as covering the floor with slot machines, but an upscale pokerroom carries much prestige and publicity for the casino.

Like the bellagio or mirage, they are well known for their pokerrooms, and the celebrities that hang there.

Ceasars has plenty of space to, a poker room would not interfere much with the other surroundings.

Anyone know why so few places offer quality card rooms?

[HDPM]

They used to have a poker room. It closed shortly after the Mirage opened. I think upper management was not too happy with the whole poker crowd, but I am not sure of this. I played there a little in LL games is all. But for a while there, Caesars, Bally's, Mirage all had poker.

[Mason Malmuth]

It closed because everyone hated the poker room manager, and when the Mirage opened, everyone left. In my book Poker Essays, there is a chapter called "The Collapse of Two Cardrooms" which discusses what happened here.

MM

I Have never know Ceasars to have a poker room going back to the 80's. I was told they had one in the late 70's but closed it.

So shall i assume that for us to get your input on the matter we should buy the book?

[drewjustdrew]

In this movie in the Oh God! trilogy, George Burns plays both God and the Devil. They play a poker hand at Caesars to decide the fate of one of the characters in the movie.

[Herb N.]

Mason's rite Ceasars had a busy cardroom they played mostly stud I believe they closed the day the Mirage opened[around 1989?]Bally's also had a great{my favorite}cardroom they downsized it around 3mo. after the Mirage opened then shut it down completly.George Bowman was the manager.

[Mason Malmuth]

Actually, it took Caesars about three months to close their cardroom. I remember that they even promised to treat people nice, but it was too late.

MM

It used to be really sweet. One could go to the Mirage, put one's name on the list there, then, take the moving walkway OUT to LV Blvd., walk a few feet, then take the moving walkway IN to Ceasar's, put your name down there, and then walk through Ceasar's, go out to LV Blvd., (NO moving walkway OUT) and go over to Bally's and check out the Poker action THERE. Rather than just sit around waiting to be called for a seat, you could walk back and forth between the three Poker rooms. Now, no Ceasar's Poker room, no Bally's Poker room.

One thing Ceasar's had that should have been nice was the ability of each dealer to throw a switch at the table (on the overhead lamp, actually) that would, via a signal, alert the brush or floor to the need for chips, cocktails, or to fill empty seats. No yelling. Unfortunately, the signal lit a light at the podium, and the brush or floorman was usually too busy elsewhere to act upon the signal in a timely manner, so the system didn't work out quite so well. But, I think the theory was sound.

I seem to remember Amarillo Slim hung out at Ceasar's, and had his "Super Bowl of Poker" tournament there. Later, the SBOP was held at Ceasar's Lake Tahoe which ALSO used to have a very good Poker room.

[Herb N.]

I remember playing in Slim's Super Bowl Of Poker at Ceasars,It then{1991}was moved to Laughlin for one year.